George A. Woods

George A. Woods (born January 26, 1926 in Lake Placid , NY , † August 11, 1988 ) was an American literary critic and children's book author.

Life

George Allan Woods grew up in the Adirondacks , an area characterized by summer homes and seasonal business. In his first novel, Vibrations , which has autobiographical traits, he described the seasonal course of life in the Adirondacks: Summer meant people, change, faces that had not been seen for a year. [...] The summer people pumped us [...] full of money and life . Woods was an editor and book critic for children's and youth literature from 1963 to 1984 for the New York Times and its supplement The New York Times Book Review . In the early 1970s he wrote two books for children and young people. The protagonist of his first book, Vibrations, is a seventeen year old looking for his own identity. The second book, Catch a Killer, is about twelve-year-old Andrew who hides in an abandoned house and witnesses a crime there. Catch a Killer received the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award in 1974 and was translated into German.

Works

• Vibration . Harper and Row, New York 1970.
• Catch a killer . Harper and Row, New York 1972, ISBN 0-06-026589-2 .
  • You Shall Not Kill , from the American by Mechtild Sandberg. Goldmann, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-442-04317-4 .
• Reviewing Books for Children . In: Sylvia E. Kamerman (Ed.): Book reviewing. A guide to writing book reviews for newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, by leading book editors, critics, and reviewers . The Writer, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-87116-113-3 , pp. 51-67.

Web links

• George A. Woods Papers in the Children's Library of the University of Minnesota

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Rabinovitz: Summer's Plague of Angels Arrives . In: New York Times of May 25, 1998. Quotation: English “Summer meant people, change, faces you hadn't seen for a year. [...] It was the summer people who pumped blood into us and money and a new life. "